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From: jf4@bonnie.UUCP (John Fourney)
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Subject: Ensoniq mirage
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Date: Thu, 18-Apr-85 13:48:16 EST
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I went to check out this board the other day.  I was looking for
something with a good piano sound.  No dice.  I feel it's worth
about $500.  Most of the sounds are really trashy.  The only one
I liked was an acoustic bass sample that was labelled sax/bass.
The strings aren't too bad.
The music store made the mistake of putting this thing next to
a Kurzweil!  Absolutely no comparision.
Kurzweil is planning on a consumer version for around $3000.
I know the Japanese companies are going crazy trying to figure it
out.  So I figure the market is going to heat up real soon.
Therefore, it's best to wait for awhile before getting a mirage.

Although the Kurzweil purportedly uses AI in their $11,000 baby,
I have a feeling that Ray is using this buzzword as part of his
advertising stunts.  The man is a master of the media, but hey,
the dude is high-powered.  So how does it work?  Ray hints in
High Tech that it's simply a very accurate mathematical algorithm
for generating the time/frequency domain of a sound.  Maybe the AI
part is knowing how to generate the algorithm for a new sound.
He says he doesn't use memory for table lookups, but simply generates
the sounds on the fly.  What a guy!

John